Iran


The Lion Women of Tehran
Martyr!
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
The Persian
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
The Persians
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Woman, Life, Freedom
One Word, Six Letters
Liquid: A Novel
Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History
Only This Beautiful Moment
I Will Greet the Sun Again
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Complete Persepolis
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
The Blind Owl
The Lion Women of Tehran
The Stationery Shop
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
Martyr!
Embroideries (Pantheon Graphic Library)
Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran
Disoriental
Shah of Shahs
The Blood of Flowers
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod SerajiThe Blind Owl by Sadegh HedayatTehran Moonlight by Azin SametipourCensoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar MandanipourSavushun by Simin Daneshvar
Iranian Fiction
45 books — 54 voters
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiFunny in Farsi by Firoozeh DumasAll The Shah's Horses by Gail Rose Thompson
Persian Memoirs
38 books — 18 voters

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison WeirThe Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
Of Kings and Queens
481 books — 205 voters
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib KhorramHow It All Blew Up by Arvin AhmadiIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiRana Joon and the One and Only Now by Shideh Etaat
Iranian Rep in YA
40 books — 18 voters


The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
Imam Ali (derived from Du'a Kumayl)

Christopher Hitchens
As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what he said was true enough, just as some of it was arguably less so. (Edward incautiously dismissed 'speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings or sabotage commercial airliners' as the feverish product of 'highly exaggerated stereotypes.') Covering Islam took as its point of departure the Iranian revolution, which by then had been fully counter-revolutionized by ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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